Cordkillers 595: Station to Stationballs
YouTube is testing artist-programmed “Stations” that turn playlists into always-on channel streams, while the watchlist this week ranges from Beef and Dungeon Crawler Carl to Spaceballs and One Piece. Meanwhile, Netflix is playing with object-erasing AI, Tubi is raiding the Sesame Street vault, and the mailbag goes deep on spin-offs, AI remix ethics, and router-level streaming stats.
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Supply Run
YouTube is testing “Stations,” a feature that would let artists turn selected videos and performances into a channel-based stream without having to manually run a live broadcast from their own computer.
Search Party
Beef returns for season 2 on April 16, with Netflix dropping the trailer ahead of the new season.
Peacock is officially developing a live-action Dungeon Crawler Carl series, with Chris Yost writing and Seth MacFarlane attached as an executive producer.
The long-awaited Spaceballs sequel has an April 23, 2027 release date, with Mel Brooks, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, and George Wyner all returning.
Andy Serkis says Aragorn will be recast for The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, confirming Viggo Mortensen will not return for the role.
Netflix released the trailer for Lord of the Flies, which premieres May 4.
Netflix has revealed that One Piece season 3 is titled One Piece: The Battle of Alabasta, and it also ordered a two-episode animated Lego retelling of the first two seasons for September 29.
Buried Treasure
Brian went back to Wonder Man with Penny and found it hit differently on a second watch.
Tom recommends NASA Artemis II Live Mission Coverage on YouTube.
Scanning the Horizon
Netflix debuted VOID, a vision-language model that can remove objects from video scenes and simulate how the remaining scene would behave without them.
Google Cast support is rolling out to Samsung TVs, including models beyond just the newest sets.
Tubi is adding 250 classic Sesame Street episodes, while Netflix and YouTube continue to split newer and library access to the long-running kids show.
YouTube’s May 13 Brandcast will be hosted by Trevor Noah as the company pitches itself to advertisers as the top streamer in the U.S. and the future of media.
Banijay is launching a Black Mirror Experience in Montreal, a 60-minute VR attraction designed to make guests feel like the main character in a reality-blurring episode.
Main Street Sports Group, owner of the FanDuel-branded regional sports networks, will shut down after its final NBA, NHL, and playoff broadcasts later this month.
Chatter
Ander wrote in with a great adjacent idea to bridge episodes: backdoor pilots and spin-offs, from JAG launching NCISto the old debate over whether Frasier might actually outshine Cheers.
Andrew Bradley pitched a much more chaotic use for AI in old TV: retraining it on Murder, She Wrote so every episode reveals Jessica Fletcher was the killer all along.
Andy Beach jumped in on the AI-and-art debate to argue that the real issue is not whether AI can learn, but who captures the economic value when commercial systems are trained on creative work without compensating the people who made it.
John Flowers pointed out that a home router could at least approximate streaming usage by tracking traffic volume, or better yet “duration of traffic,” to show how long each device is actively pulling from a streaming service.